Titans player test positive today 10/7

[WEATHER DOT COM]

Bubble or bust

[Yobogoya!]

19 minutes ago, jletha said:

Why not abandon TNF for the rest of the season (besides the obvious $$$). But move TNF to Sunday or Monday ont he same network, make it a double header every week. Unprecedented times, these networks ned to make sacrifices. But IMO keeping TNF is throwing a wrench into things. If we didnt play Thursday then we could conceivably play the Titans on Monday or Tues.

The league completely shot themselves in the foot by not scheduling extra bye weeks throughout the year as a buffer. Honestly I think they should have at least 2 every year anyway, but this year more than ever it was a no brainer. 
 

Then they go ahead and schedule Thursday games as well, just being greedy and stupid. Talk about having no plan. 

Edited October 7, 2020 by Yobogoya!

[Mr. K]

NBA and NHL absolutely got the bubble part of handling 2020 right, should be the precedent. 

[Ethan in Cleveland]

NFL.COM is reporting two more players testing positive not one..

No way this game is played.

[teef]

when would it be announced that the game if off?  friday?

[Buffalo03]

The Bills bye week is week 11. I think we could have our bye this week, play the Chiefs on Thursday night and then play the Titans week 11, couldn't we?

[Cotton Fitzsimmons]

3 minutes ago, Buffalo03 said:

The Bills bye week is week 11. I think we could have our bye this week, play the Chiefs on Thursday night and then play the Titans week 11, couldn't we?

The Titans are supposed to play the Ravens Week 11. It’s a difficult puzzle, gents!

[Johnny Hammersticks]

1 minute ago, Cotton Fitzsimmons said:

The Titans are supposed to play the Ravens Week 11. It’s a difficult puzzle, gents!

 

Yep.  Only reschedule option appears to be after week 17.  Buffalo would just get an additional bye this week which wouldn’t be terrible going into a Thursday game against KC.

[DrDawkinstein]

13 minutes ago, Mr. K said:

NBA and NHL absolutely got the bubble part of handling 2020 right, should be the precedent. 

 

Bubbling is absolutely the best and only real solution for having a successful season.

 

However, that is much easier for the NBA and NHL, when both only needed a couple months in order to finish a compressed season.

 

The NFL would have had to bubble for Camp + the whole season + playoffs. That is a 6 month bubble for lots of folk. That is very tough to pull off. Not only keeping people following protocol that long, but forcing so many people to be away from their families that long. It isnt just million dollar players, but lots of under paid staff too.

 

Aaron Rodgers was just on Pat McAfee yesterday saying he didnt even want to bubble for the playoffs. We would have seen a TON more players opt out.

 

I'm all for the bubble, dont get me wrong. Just saying it would have been a much tougher task for the NFL.

[Doc]

Yeah, the players don't want to bubble.  As for the current situation, the affected teams will have to deal with it.  If it spreads to more teams, then taking time off becomes a necessity.

[Buffalo03]

I mean honestly, with the fact that these players could be negative one day and positive the next, why not just tell the players that test positive to stay away from the team and just let the players that test negative play? I mean Stefon Gilmore just tested positive which means he more than likely had it Monday while playing the Chiefs. There's no sense in delaying or cancelling multiple games when these guys could actually technically have the virus while they're playing and test positive the next day anyway. 

[JPicc2114]

The NFL went into this season with no real plan how to navigate it with people testing positive for Covid. This is not baseball where you can just play a double header

[Cotton Fitzsimmons]

1 minute ago, Johnny Hammersticks said:

 

Yep.  Only reschedule option appears to be after week 17.  Buffalo would just get an additional bye this week which wouldn’t be terrible going into a Thursday game against KC.

Hammersticks, my good fellow, you are spot on per usual! It appears the only option at this point, short of an outright forfeit/cancellation. It will provide a tremendous advantage coming off a bye with the Chiefs traveling on a short week. One would think the league would avoid it and try to move that game perhaps to Sunday, but it would be hard to imagine the league losing that Thursday prime time slot as well. It seems the league will have to pick one of a number of strange options to navigate these waters.

[RichRiderBills]

Ugh...this season is going to be a challenge. Not sure how it will shape out, but we should enjoy each week we get to play.

 

Im not a supporter of forfeits. I want real wins. This wheel could land on us someday, and we need to be flexible, even if a violation occured, Id punish the team another way.

[DrDawkinstein]

Sounds like there is a pretty good chance the league finds some hijinks and forces the Titans to forfeit.

 

Word on WGR just now is that the NFL is investigating a report that a bunch of Titans players got together this week to work out when they were all supposed to be quarantining separately.

[Big Blitz]

31 minutes ago, Ethan in Portland said:

NFL needs to make a decision quickly.

Either make Tennessee forfeit or shut the whole league down for two weeks to get things under control again.

 

 

Things are under control.

 

Just not on the Titans.  

[Process]

1 minute ago, RichRiderBills said:

Ugh...this season is going to be a challenge. Not sure how it will shape out, but we should enjoy each week we get to play.

 

Im not a supporter of forfeits. I want real wins. This wheel could land on us someday, and we need to be flexible, even if a violation occured, Id punish the team another way.

If they start making teams forfeit this whole season becomes a joke. The SB winner will already have an asterisk, start forfeiting games and you can throw on a few more *****

[sonyab1974]

1 hour ago, Mrbojanglezs said:

 

Ya but do we really want to have a free win on our record? I have mixed feelings about that. 

 

No! I don't want a free win when we didn't do anything to deserve it.

[Golden*Wheels]

5 minutes ago, DrDawkinstein said:

Sounds like there is a pretty good chance the league finds some hijinks and forces the Titans to forfeit.

 

Word on WGR just now is that the NFL is investigating a report that a bunch of Titans players got together this week to work out when they were all supposed to be quarantining separately.

There were also reports on PFT their linebacker coach knew he was potentially exposed, and didn't notify anyone. In addition to reports they weren't wearing masks reliably in their facility.

[Just Joshin']

6 minutes ago, DrDawkinstein said:

Sounds like there is a pretty good chance the league finds some hijinks and forces the Titans to forfeit.

 

Word on WGR just now is that the NFL is investigating a report that a bunch of Titans players got together this week to work out when they were all supposed to be quarantining separately.

If true they deserve to forfeit.